John Schmidt, who has made a name for himself by trapping nuisance wildlife, especially feral hogs, recalls his long career in the St. Charles Herald Guide. "Trapper John'' as he is known has been featured on a number of television programs on the National Geographic and Animal Planet networks, the Herald Guide reported.

Schmidt of St. Rose has worked at Louis Armstrong International Airport and Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, rounding up pigs that are responsible for damaging for the area's flood protection levees. He recently sought to provide a similar service to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West. He has trapped animals in lower coast Algiers.

But the work does come with peril. Schmidt told the Herald Guide that he has been gored by a wild hog's tusk. "If one of them runs into you, just a hair can knock off your skin,'' he told the newspaper.